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File - A Palestinian child clears rubble following a deadly raid by Israeli forces that began Thursday night in the Nur Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, Monday, April 22, 2024. Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy
UN expert says death of 8-year-old appears to violate law after reviewing evidence gathered by BBC. ... ... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) BBC News
Gaza War   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Thursday, April 25, 2024. UN Secretary-General calls for international investigation into mass graves reports in Gaza
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed grave deep alarm over reports of the discovery of mass graves at several locations in Gaza, including Al-Shifa and Nasser ... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf-Times
Antonio Guterres   Gaza War   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Harvey Weinstein and his attorney Donna Rotunno, right, leave the courtroom during jury deliberations in his rape trial, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in New York. Opinion: Reversal in Harvey Weinstein case isn’t the demise of sex crimes prosecution
When a Manhattan jury found movie mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of sex crimes in 2020, the verdict seemed to herald a new era of accountability. The #MeToo movement was... (photo: AP / Richard Drew) CNN
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 U.S. writer Paul Auster, author of "The New York Trilogy" and "The Book of Illusions" among other works, listens to a question during a press conference in Oviedo, Spain, Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006, where his is to receive Spain´s Paul Auster: cool narrator of noirish New York
Emilie BICKERTON May 1, 2024 40 mins ago 0 | Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email | Paul Auster, the Mr Cool of American fiction, has set many of his novels in New York Ci... (photo: AP Photo/EFE, J. L. Cereijido) Guam Pacific Daily News
Culture   Paul Auster   Photos   US States  
Varanasi, India as seen from Ganga river. Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city
The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancien... (photo: Creative Commons / Marcin Biaek) CNN
Elections   India   Photos   Varanasi  
A Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer walks carrying a gun in the neighborhood where a shooting took place in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, April 29, 2024. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says officers from the U.S. Marshals Task Force were carrying out an investigation Monday afternoon in a suburban neighborhood when they came under gunfire. North Carolina shootout that killed 4 law officers began as task force tried to serve a warrant
A shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in North Carolina began as officers approached a home to serve a warrant for a felon wanted f... (photo: AP / Nell Redmond) WPTV
Carolina Shooting   Gun Control   Photos   US Crime   Wikipedia: 2024 Charlotte shootout  
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally Saturday, July 29, 2023, in Erie How Far Trump Would Go
Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice. | We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-... (photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki) Time Magazine
Donald Trump   Elections   Photos   US States  
File - Afghan people offer Eid al-Fitr prayers as a Taliban fighter stands guard at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Gunman kills at least six in attack on mosque in Afghanistan’s Herat
A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman says. | Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said “an... (photo: AP / Siddiqullah Khan) Al Jazeera
Afghanistan   Extremism   ISIS   Photos   Wikipedia: Afghan conflict  
Victorian police man a road block near the site where a car struck pedestrians in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 Australia’s problem with male violence is getting worse. So, what’s the solution?
It wasn’t another news story about the death of a woman at the hands of her partner that convinced Daniel McCormack he had to be part of the solution. It was Scottish c... (photo: AP / Andrew Brownbill) CNN
Australia   Photos   Violence against women  
FILE - Pedestrians run past an armored police car in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 7, 2024. Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. Worsening the situation is this week's closure of Port-au-Prince's main seaport. The move left stranded scores of containers filled with critical items like food and medical supplies in a country where U.N. officials say half the population does not have enough to eat and 1.4 million are starving. Haiti’s deadly gangs forced the government out. Now they want a seat at the table
Vitel’homme Innocent’s picture on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of fugitives suggests a crazed man – eyes wide and wild, teeth bared. It’s the photo you ... (photo: AP / Odelyn Joseph, File) CNN
Caribbean   Drug gangs   Haiti   Photos  
Actor Gerard Depardieu poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Valley of Love, at the 68th international film festival, Cannes Actor Gerard Depardieu, 75, ‘in custody over film set sexual assault claims’
Gérard Depardieu is ‘in custody’ following sexual assault claims (Picture: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images) | French movie star Gérard Depardieu is in custody at ... (photo: AP / Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Metro UK
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President Joe Biden arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Thursday, June 29, 2023, to attend campaign receptions Biden is up against nostalgia for Trump’s first term
CNN  —  President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’s a harder card to play now that he’s in office and some v... (photo: AP / Andrew Harnik) Egypt Independent
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FILE In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 file photo Alexei Navalny attends hearings in Moscow, Russia. US intelligence agencies believe Putin ‘probably didn’t’ order Alexei Navalny to be killed - reports
Navalny, who was 47 when he died in an Arctic prison camp, was Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic critic | The Kremlin has denied any state involvement in the death of ... (photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin) The Irish Times
Alexei Navalny   Photos   Russia   US intelligence   Wikipedia: Alexei Navalny  
People chant slogans holding banners that reads "From Gaza to Paris - Residence - Emergency Palestine" during a pro-Palestinian rally, in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023 Across the Western world, public opinion on Palestine is finally shifting
For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every y... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus) Al Jazeera
Israel   Palestinians   Photos   US States  
22nd Session of Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Grist
Human Rights   Indigenous   Photos   United Nations  
Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Supreme Court, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in New York. 'Beyond disappointed': Hollywood reacts to Weinstein ruling
Harvey Weinstein leaves a Manhattan courthouse after closing arguments in his rape trial in New York. File/AP | Hollywood stars, including multiple actresses who have acc... (photo: AP / Julio Cortez) Gulf Today
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FILE - Harvey Weinstein leaves a Manhattan courthouse after closing arguments in his rape trial in New York, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. ‘Beyond disappointed’: Hollywood reacts to Harvey Weinstein ruling
Hollywood stars, including multiple actresses who have accused Harvey Weinstein of assault, reacted with shock and outrage on Thursday after the former movie producer's N... (photo: AP / Seth Wenig, File) Independent online
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Former President Donald Trump arrives to board his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, in Arlington, Va., after facing a judge on federal conspiracy charges that allege he conspired to subvert the 2020 election. Two Trump courtroom dramas could help shape the tone of a future presidency
A wild day of often outlandish legal arguments and tabloid tales could not obscure the stakes for the country. Only Donald Trump could conjure a two-city legal spectacle ... (photo: AP / Alex Brandon) CNN
Donald Trump   Elections   Photos   White House  
Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings of the Abo al Hanood family after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Palestinian medics said several residents, including children, were killed in the airstrike. Israel intensifies Rafah airstrikes before ground assault
A view of tents set up for displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis, on Thursday.—Reuters | CAIRO: As Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah and planne... (photo: AP / Ismael Abu Dayyah) Dawn
Gaza War   Human Rights   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Police patrol the Champ de Mars area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Haiti transitional council ceremony forced to change venue as violence persists
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A new body tasked with forming Haiti's next government will swear in its members on Thursday, as violence continues in the capital.A swathe of recent g... (photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa) Saudi Gazette
Democracy   Gang Violence   Haiti Crime   Photos   Wikipedia: Gang war in Haiti  
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